KEYNOTE SPEAKERS （Sorted by Surname）
Main Forum
| Dr. Gehan Amaratunga University of Cambridge, U.K. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Chief of Research and Innovation Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology. Professor Amaratunga’s research is in the broad area of materials and technologies for electrical energy and power. It intersects electrical and electronic engineering with chemistry, physics, materials science and information systems. More information and update: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/gaja1 |
| Dr. Danny Ziyi Chen University of Notre Dame, U.S.A Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Dr. Chen's main research interests are in computational biomedicine, biomedical imaging, computational geometry, algorithms and data structures, machine learning, data mining, and VLSI. More information and update: http://www3.nd.edu/~dchen/ |
| Dr. José Nelson Onuchic Rice University, U.S.A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Harry C & Olga K Wiess Chair of Physics, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Biociences. Onuchic’s main goal is to lead the biological physics community as it attempts to devise an integrated picture of a variety of model biochemical and biological systems. His research has expanded across the scales of molecular-level interactions to cellular systems to organized multi-cellular structures. |
| Dr. Shu-Hong Yu(俞书宏) His research interests include bio-inspired synthesis of nanoscale building blocks, self-assembly and macroscopic assemblies, nanocomposites, and their functions and applications. |
| Dr. Michael Q. Zhang Director of Center for Systems Biology at UT Dallas Co-director of Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology at Tsinghua U. Dr Zhang’s research interests include bioinformatics and other omics-technology development for systems biology. |
Session 1: Biology and Medicine
 | Dr. Peng Zou Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University. His lab focuses on inventing chemistry-enabled tools to study cellular structure, function and signaling pathways, with a particular focus on neuroscience. This mainly follows two lines of efforts: enzyme-based probes for profiling biomolecules in neurons, and optical reporters for neural activity. |
| Dr. Chunyang Xiong
Professor, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University. His current research interests are interdisciplinary studies involving mechanics, molecular cell biology, micro/nano technology, including cell mechanics, mechanobiology, microfluidic chip, micromechanics of soft matter. |
Session 3: Nanoscale Science and Technology
| Dr. Chao Gao Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests include hyperbranched polymers, graphene and carbon nanotubes, controlled/living polymerization and click chemistry. |
| Dr. Luda Wang Luda Wang is a faculty member in the Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Peking University. Luda Wang’s research interests are in fundamentals and applications of nanofluidics at nanometer scale, including molecular transport and mechanical properties of two-dimensional material membranes. |
Session 2: Big data and AI
| Dr. Yunhuai Liu
Assistant professor Center of Data Science, Peking University Leading researcher, Beijing Institute of Big Data Research. His research interests mainly focus on wireless sensor networks, mobile edge computing, and Internet of Things. |
| Dr. Zhiming Yang PhD, CEO & Chief Architect from iDeepWise Artificial Intelligence. Institute of software Chinese Academy of Science PhD of NLP&DL. MBA of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Set up the business successfully for 4 times continuously in AI area. He has presided over several national major projects，and was awarded " The Technology Leader Prize" of Suzhou and Nanjing. He has 34 invention patents and 49 intellectual property rights. |
| Dr. Zhanxing Zhu Assistant scientist Center of Data Science, Peking University Leading researcher, Beijing Institute of Big Data Research. Research Areas: Machine learning and its applications in various domains. Currently he mainly focuses on deep learning theory and optimization algorithms, reinforcement learning, and applications in traffic, computer security, computer graphics, medical imaging etc. He has published more than 20 AI papers on top journals and conferences, such as NIPS, ICML, ACL, AAAI, ECML etc. |
